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Municipal charters

1901/1902
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Onancock, Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1900, titled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Washington, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and macadamize the roads in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question.
An ACT to authorize the town of Suffolk, Virginia, to issue bonds to redeem bonds maturing during 1902 and 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Westhampton Park Railway Company
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of South Boston, in Halifax county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 of the charter of the town of Gladeville, in Wise county.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Mineral, in the county of Louisa.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to create a general road fund, and to provide for the permanent improvement of roads.
An ACT to repeal certain acts creating Fairmount district, in Henrico county.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Fredericksburg to determine the method of collecting the expenses of building sewers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 55 of an act. entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Emporia, approved January 31, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 28, 1898.
An ACT to incorporate the Warrenton and Waterloo Road Company.
An ACT to authorize the consolidation of the Portsmouth and Suffolk Water Company, the Berkley and South Norfolk Water and Electric Light Company, and the Nansemond Water Company, under the name of the Portsmouth, Berkley and Suffolk Water Company.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Roanoke, Virginia, to redeem the bonds of the town of Roanoke now outstanding, and the bonds of the city of Roanoke now outstanding, as they become due and payable, or as they may become redeemable, at the option of the city of Roanoke, and for that purpose to borrow money and issue its bonds therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-division 5 of section 19 of chapter 3 of the act entitled “an act providing a charter for the city of Richmond,” approved May 24, 1870, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend sub-division 5 of section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond, approved May 24, 1870,” approved February 24, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 15, 23, 87, and 94 and sub-divisions 5 and 6 of section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond,” approved February 25, 1892, enlarging the powers of the city council in regard to maintaining or improving water works, gas works, and electric plants owned by the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Warrenton
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 16, 1901, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Fredericksburg and Rappahannock Railway Company, approved February 7,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 1, of an act approved February 19, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Blackstone, in Nottoway county, Virginia, approved February 23, 1888, so as to extend the limits of said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 8 of the revised charter of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Greenesville county to sell and convey a part of the courthouse lot of said county.
An ACT to vacate and close the streets, avenues, and alleys in the projected town of Minneapolis, in the county of Russell.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize and provide for a special election in the Dublin magisterial district, of Pulaski county, as to the purchase by the board of supervisors of said county of a one-third interest in the bridge across New river at the city of Radford
An ACT for relief of William Heider from erroneous taxation from 1875 to the year 1898, inclusive.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 29 of section 7, chapter 6, of the charter of the city of Lynchburg in reference to the consolidation of the offices of the city engineer and city surveyor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15, 84, and the first sub-division of section 93 of the charter of the city of Richmond, in regard to terms of members of the city council, and in regard to the police department and fire and fire-alarm departments.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Clarke county to build, construct, and maintain a bridge over the Shenandoah river at or near Castleman’s ferry, and one over the Shenandoah river at or near Berry’s ferry, in Clarke county.
An ACT to prohibit the sale or the keeping in stock by any merchant, or other dealer under a merchant’s license, or by any other person, within the corporate limits of the town of Berryville, Clarke county, Virginia, or within one mile thereof, of squibs, fire-crackers, Roman candles, cannon-crackers, or fireworks of any kind, without a written permit from the council of the town of Berryville, issued in pursuance of a resolution passed by said council.
An ACT to constitute Tangier island, Accomac county, into a sepa-
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Scottsville, in Albemarle and Fluvanna counties, Virginia, to require a license to be taken out; to impose a tax for the benefit of the said town for the privilege of engaging any pursuit or business within one mile from the corporate limits of said town
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Lynchburg by adding section 14 to chapter S oof the revised charter of said city in relation to the penalty for non payment of taxes.
An ACT to repeal an act approved February 13, 1901, incorporating the town of Cedar Bluff.
An ACT to authorize the town council of Lebanon, in Russell county, to issue bonds and borrow money to improve its streets and sidewalks.
An ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to divide equally for road purposes among all the isterial districts of said county the district road tax on and collected from the Southern Railway Company in and for Stevensburg, Catalpa, and Cedar Mountain dis- tricts, in said county.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act for the incorporation of the town of Bowling Green, in the county of Caroline.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Basic City, approved December 19, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 4, of the charter of the city of Lynchburg in reference to the eligibility of persons who may be elected to the offices of city engineer, city surveyor, and city electrician.
An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to close Duke-street canal and vest the city of Norfolk with the title of the State of Virginia in a portion thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, 9, 11, and 12 of an act approved March 2, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond and Tidewater Railroad Company, approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 8 of the revised charter of the city of Lynchburg (acts 1895-6)
An ACT to incorporate Norfolk City and Suburban Railway Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Rockfish Valley Railway Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, approved November 24, 1884, as amended by act approved February 14, 1901.
An ACT to annex additional territory to the city of Norfolk, and provide for the government of said annexed territory.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Columbia, in Fluvanna county, Virginia, to require a license to be taken out and to impose a tax for the benefit of the said town for the privilege of engaging in any pursuit or business within one mile from the corporate limits of said town.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act to create Northside district, in Brookland magisterial district, in the county of Henrico, and to provide for lighting and sewerage in said Northside district, and for making and maintaining other improvements of a public nature therein
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, and 5 of an act approved February 19, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Blackstone, Nottoway county, Virginia, approved February 28, 1888.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 8 of the charter of the city of Danville, Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 1, 1901
An ACT to amend the charter of the Central Railway of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 5 of section 17 of chapter 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Radford, Virginia, approved January 22, 1892, and to authorize the city council of said city to acquire and build bridges across New river from Radford city to Pulaski county.
An ACT for the relief of George L. Barton and Charles W. Denni from the payment of taxes on property in Nansemond county, Virginia, formerly belonging to Jerome Moltz.
An ACT to amend and re-enact article 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phebus, in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Urbanna, in the county of Middlesex.
An ACT to empower the town of Colonial Beach, in the county of Westmoreland, to borrow money and issue bonds.
An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry, Virginia, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors therein, and in the event a majority of those voting at said election vote for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and the conduct of the same, and to prohibit thereafter within said town, or within the magisterial district in which said town is situated, the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms, or corporations, except as provided herein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act in regard to notice by publication of the codification of ordinances of the city of Norfolk
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 21, 1901, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the town council of Farmville, Virginia, to exempt from municipal taxation the bonds of said town issued under section 21 of the charter of said town, as approved February 8, 1901.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 8, and 9 and to repeal section 17 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Belle Haven, in the county of Accomac, approved December 14, 1895.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Berkley.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1832.
An ACT to change the name of the town of Smithville.
An ACT to amend charter of Chesapeake Transit Company.
An ACT to allow the town of Front Royal to supply said town and its inhabitants in the vicinity of said town with water, and to issue bonds of said town to effect said purpose.
An ACT to authorize the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds to continue the paving and grading the streets in the fifth ward of said city.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Fairmount, in Henrico county.
An ACT amending the charter for the town of Bond Town, in Wise
An ACT to authorize the city council of Alexandria to issue its coupon bonds, called “public improvement bonds,” to the amount of $50,000, for the purpose of making street and sewer improvements in the city of Alexandria, and for the purpose of improving the city gas works, and to provide a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Nicholsville, in the county of
An ACT to amend chapter 315, acts of 1885 and 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Cape Charles, in the county of Northampton, approved March 1, 1886, and to extend and enlarge the corporate limits of said town.
An ACT to authorize Richmond Bland, Joseph L. Bland, W. II. Bell, and J. W. Marshall to erect wharves, docks, or piers on their lot in the town of West Point, King William county, on the York and Mattaponi rivers, known as a part of the Beach lot.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Clifton, in Fairfax county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 22, 1898, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 16, 1901, entitled an act to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski, approved February 2, 1898, and to amend and re-enact section 5 of said act, approved February 2, 1898, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 685 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Cape Charles, in the county of Northampton.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Wakefield.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved March 8, 1873, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Louisa, Louisa county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as embodied in the act approved May 24, 1870, and to provide for the establishment of certain election precincts in said city.
1901es
An ACT to incorporate the Fairfax, Potomac, and Washington electric railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Bethel military academy, Fauquier county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act to authorize the council of the city of Fredericksburg to apportion the expenses of street and other local improvements between the city treasury and the real estate benefited thereby
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia internal improvement company.
An ACT giving the consent of this state to the acquisition by the government of the United States of so much land as may be necessary for a public building in the city of Charlottesville.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5. 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 42, 45, and 50, of the charter of the city of Manchester as enacted by an act of the General Assembly, approved March 20, 1874, providing for the submission of the same to an election by the qualified voters of said city, and providing for the proper operation of said amendments, and enact- ing a schedule in relation thereto.
An ACT to authorize the town of Clintwood to issue bonds to grade and improve the streets of said town.
An ACT as to working inmates of Norfolk city jai.
An ACT to authorize the town of Chase City to borrow money, issue bonds, and own land.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to repeal subdivision 9 of section 19, chapter 3 of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 8, 1894, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood in Dickenson county.
An ACT to provide for altering and vacating certain streets and alleys in Norfolk county not lying within the limits of any city or town, and to validate and confirm proceedings heretofore had in the county court of said county for the purpose of altering or vacating any such streets or alleys, and to limit the time within which remedies in respect thereto or to the closing or attempted closing thereof may be had.
An ACT to allow the city of Norfolk to require the city or the property owners to build or keep in repair the sidewalks, or both build and keep in repair the same.
An ACT to authorize the city council of Fredericksburg to establish a system of sewerage for the city and to obtain right of way for same by condemnation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 554 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia 1899-1900 entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 65 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick,” approved February 27, 1900.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, to borrow money for the purpose of purchasing, erecting, constructing, and maintaining a system of water-works for said town, and for the purpose of constructing and maintaining sewerage for said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 8, 1894, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county.
An ACT authorizing the city of Norfolk to issue $15,000 bonds on Atlantic City ward property and $10,000 on Brambleton ward property.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Jonesville, in the county of Lee.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 8 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt county, approved March 4, 1896.
An ACT to authorize the town of Abingdon to take control of the hall in said town, known as Temperance hall, and to provide for repairing and enlarging the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 30 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith
An ACT to give justices of the peace in incorporated towns of Charlotte county concurrent jurisdiction with mayors of said towns, in trying offenses against the Commonwealth.